The Most Important Question Of The Day

[ericcoleman]

[Poll #1192138]

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[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Beer's made with (ugh) hops!

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Hops are a great herbal anaphrodisiac. All those manly men in the beer ads, thumping their chests, have NO idea what they are quaffing. Ha!

[bdunbar.livejournal.com]

I just learned something.

(looking at the bottle of ale in the fridge) Traitor!

[nomaddervish.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I knew all along that I hated beer, but had no idea why until I started doing homebrew mead and came across a recipe that included hops. As soon as I opened that bag and the smell hit me, I knew why I couldn't stand beer. (And, yet, for some reason, I went ahead and put the hops in. I suppose the people I shared it with didn't mind, though, since it meant more for them.)

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

For me, it was getting into herbal teas and edible flowers that exposed me to hops.

There ARE some things that taste/smell dreadful by themselves that are OK blended into other flavors and cooked/fermented. But, for me anyway, Hops isn't one of them. What a waste of good mead!!!

[ericcoleman]

I really rarely drink, but if I do it's going to be Harp Lager

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

Harp is quite a nice beer. Good choice!

[ms-dblk.livejournal.com]

Definitely wine, except for the occasional Kaliber (Guiness' NA).

[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

I only answered wine because I'm more likely to choose wine. If I want beer, though, I do love it. Tends to be a hot day thing, and I tend to like lighter crisper beers. Not a dark beer fan.

[ericcoleman]

My brother drinks motor oil Guinness Stout. I just don't get it.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

"The beer that eats like a meal!" TM

[stephanieb.livejournal.com]

Beer you can't see through is the best! Guiness is not the top of the line though. Give me a nice coffee stout by oh, say New Glarus (New Glarus doesn't make any bad beer of any kind as far as I've tasted) or Yeti Imperial Stout by Great Divide (and oh, their barleywine!)

I like both beer and wine, but I'm only picky about beer. I'm happy to drink cheap wine.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Im more likely right now to drink mead which is close enough to wine.

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Me too. I got the need for mead!

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Mead technically is a form of wine, though it's not made from grapes.

Then there’s metheglyn (wine made from honey and herbs) and melomel (wine made with honey and fruit) if you’re being technical. Not sure about the technical name for chocolate mead (chocolate comes from cocoa beans, which might be considered a fruit…)

You might like actual strawberry wine (wine made from strawberries, not wine made from grapes with strawberry flavor added--they do NOT taste the same). Some of the small Wisconsin wineries make good strawberry wine.

[blur01.livejournal.com]

Thom makes a mean strawberry wine.

I stick to meads for the moment though, I will admit, that I will likely branch out to add in some melomels. Im trying to find the right flavor of honey to use. Something light and forgiving of foreign flavors (and the acid).

Im also going to attempt to make my "private consumption" quota this year.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Neither. Hard cider, or whiskey.

[freeimprov.livejournal.com]

And my answer to this one is "yes, please!"

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I don't like beer. All beer tastes the same -- like beer. Except for Guinness, which tastes MORE like beer.

I very rarely drink wine, but there are certainly some wines I've had that I enjoyed very much. And only one or two that were as nasty as beer.

[ntrlstgrl.livejournal.com]

DAMNIT I want a third option.

YES